From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen Sinclair" Subject: branch description Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:49 -0400 Message-ID: <9b3e2dc20804150951scf8b3c7x26f3a56eab1f9840@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 15 19:18:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JloOa-0000u7-Po for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:52:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759626AbYDOQvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759587AbYDOQvv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:51 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.248]:23660 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758835AbYDOQvu (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:51:50 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k29so917925rvb.1 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:51:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=UjcHo7z0L3X+tLNKue2J5dWP1lBw8+Q7jpHjmjQidHQ=; b=Fz7cQgaPguvzN6+K0xj3BpU/rceKyQmcxsd3Hnr5Z/6nZfbdODjyB3Ueu8betpOO/l+nbfvXxoDV57NWvACUxcWOGCZY7wJILMNmN2ttu7yvtODT1/5aE94BGnplXCcepvY010lW7jDciZFLONEcGMaPfbllVpuMUJL6hzR/wm8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=IXD/HouV2maOdPw2G+8lSmHNMWomdJ1iwKp6R5matAACOgZN53qu7eh+peRWwvyvh3knlE0jE08GMjmHfSMBEO8pm97SbPfSXsy8tHsAvvUZ5dEWPiCauiK4duiGKIruTZ1UGBoAGUuiWuLwRY1AxbG/E7RhHI2sW+nn6mCsr04= Received: by 10.141.129.14 with SMTP id g14mr4428429rvn.274.1208278309820; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.66.3 with HTTP; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, I find it useful to use fairly short names for branches. However, sometimes I would like to have a full sentence to actually describe what the branch is for, without having the peruse the actual commits. This is both for when I later can't remember why I made a certain branch, or for when people clone and look at a list of branches wondering what the differences are between them. This information could of course be kept on a web page, but it would be nice to have it in the repo. Is there any such branch annotation command? Ideally I'd like to see a sentence displayed next to the branch name when I use "git-branch". Perhaps, git-branch --info or something. Steve